[SOLVED] Migrating to 64bit Slackware

Crashbox · 09-24-2010, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by brooko

virtual box

The PUEL version of VirtualBox works perfectly on Slackware64. Just grab the static binary, set up the appropriate user accounts and away you go. I know it isn't open source, but so aren't most of the other packages you mentioned.

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Originally Posted by brooko

supported flash (64-bit no longer supported i think?)

Adobe released Flash Player Square last week, which includes amongst other things support for 64bit linux. See this thread for details:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...9/#post4098539

Alien Bob has build scripts and packages at his site. Many of us have been using it with good results.

dTd · 09-24-2010, 12:57 PM

The biggest hurdle for me would be wine, I like to play some win games such as SCII and nwn2. If I could know that I could get those running under 64bit I would definately switch.

T3slider · 09-24-2010, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by brooko

When is 64-bit faster??? I've noticed no improvements, is video encoding any quicker? The main job of my desktop is to turn mpeg2 recordings in to mpg4/divx's.

Video encoding would benefit by using a 64-bit OS. Other applications are less proven, but if you will mainly be encoding video, 64-bit is a wise choice.

lpallard · 09-24-2010, 06:33 PM

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Video encoding would benefit by using a 64-bit OS

Is this your experience? If so, this is definitely interesting!

T3slider · 09-24-2010, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by lpallard

Is this your experience? If so, this is definitely interesting!

See here (Windows DivX) and here (Ubuntu XVid and other random operations). I haven't timed 32-bit vs 64-bit encoding myself, and it's been a while now since I've encoded on a 32-bit system (all my systems are now 64-bit) so I can't even provide anecdotal evidence myself...but CPU-intensive operations like video encoding are definitely, at least theoretically and apparently in practice according to the above links, superior in 64-bit systems compared to 32-bit ones.

ack_iix · 09-24-2010, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by dTd

The biggest hurdle for me would be wine, I like to play some win games such as SCII and nwn2. If I could know that I could get those running under 64bit I would definately switch.

You could go multilib route and install Eric's compat32 packages, wine will build just fine after that. I play Warcraft III on my Slackware64-multilib with wine.

lpallard · 01-08-2011, 06:46 PM

I will close this thread as my questions got answered. I tried Slack64 on my new htpc and so far so good. I did not notice a big benefit and probably more complications than required due to compatibility issues or limitations so I think I will stick to 32bit releases until they force me out!!

thanks!